Cancer Legal Advocacy

    The Cancer Legal Advocacy Interest Group is the Health Law Section’s pro bono project designed to lead and implement educational programs that protect the legal rights of cancer patients and their families with a focus on advocacy training for attorneys interested in assisting patients who need legal advice related to their diagnosis and treatment

    Interest Group Membership

    All ABA members are eligible to join the Cancer Legal Advocacy Interest Group. You do not need to be a member of the Health Law Section to join us. If you are interested in taking an active role on the Cancer Legal Advocacy Interest Group, please contact Carol.Simmons@americanbar.org.

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    Free On-Demand Cancer Advocacy Training

    In addition to the live in-person training workshops, the Cancer Legal Advocacy Interest Group also provides periodic 90-minute webinars. These session focus on such issues as cancer rights, advocating for breast cancer patients and their families, and other cancer related topics designed to bring our training workshops to a greater audience.

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    Since 2007, the ABA Health Law Section's Cancer Legal Advocacy Interest Group (formerly the Breast Cancer Initiatives Task Force) has sponsored 33 Training Workshops across the country reaching over 1,000 attorneys and has presented training webinars for countless attorneys including those lawyers directly involved in legal advocacy for patients, treatment facilities, social services, and a host of other sectors that touch upon patients and their families facing this debilitating disease. Over the years, the Cancer Legal Advocacy Interest Group has trained more than a thousand attorneys on the legal issues impacting cancer patients, survivors and their families and enabled them to provide free or low-cost legal services to individuals and their families in crisis.

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    HLS Cancer Legal Advocacy Partnership with the Cancer Legal Resource Center (CLRC)

    The ABA’s Cancer Legal Advocacy Interest Group (then the Breast Cancer Initiatives) was first introduced in 1993 by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession to provide information and education on a wide range of legal issues related to women's health, and to provided resources to lawyers and consumers facing breast cancer. In 2008, the ABA Health Law Section assumed responsibility for the Breast Cancer project. Shortly thereafter, we partnered with the Cancer Legal Resource Center (CLRC) to further our shared breast cancer legal advocacy goals. In 2019, the Interest Group changed its name to the Cancer Legal Advocacy Interest Group and continues to work in collaboration with the Cancer Legal Resource Center to train attorneys and promote their pro bono or low cost legal services on a wide range of issues facing cancer patients and those diagnosed with other and life-threatening diseases.

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